With the lead and feather arrows shot from the bottom of the mountain, Zhao Ran used the strong crossbow in his hand to shoot an official soldier attacking the mountain. The officer seemed to be an officer of the Ming army, and immediately after he was shot an arrow, a group of soldiers rushed over and dragged him down with shields.

Zhao Ran's new leader carved arrows, and when he saw Zhao Ran's excellent performance, he happily opened his mouth and encouraged: "Well done, shoot a few more arrows to kill them." When this battle is over, I will promote you to be a captain. ”

"Thank you, boss."

Hearing the promise of the new leader, Zhao Ran pretended to be grateful on the surface, but he was very disdainful in his heart. There are more people under your command than yours, so why do you care about you, the chief of the army. What's more, now the army of thieves in the imperial court is at the foot of the mountain, and if you have the life to go out, let's talk about it.

Not long after Zhao Ran joined the Diao Ling archers, he turned out to be a cavalryman under the great thief Liu Wu.

Before taking refuge in Liu Wu, he also took refuge in several other leaders. And earlier, he was the leader of the thieves under Du San's henchmen, and when he was mixed under Du San, Zhao Ran was quite beautiful.

But after the Battle of the West Trench, his glorious days came to an end. Du San, the leader who valued him, was killed by the official army, and Zhao Ran rode a war horse and jumped through the stream, so he escaped the pursuit of the official army and saved his life.

After that, Zhao Ran joined up with other fugitive thieves, but in the face of repeated defeats in the pursuit of the official army, life was not good. Zhao Ran thought that if he continued like this, he would be beheaded by the officials and soldiers sooner or later.

Therefore, Zhao Ran secretly broke away from the thieves' men and horses, and entered the thieves' lair in Dongchuan after some sneaking, and then was incorporated into the cavalry team of the great thief Liu Wu. Although he was not appreciated by Liu Wu, at least Zhao Ran's life was somewhat better.

However, this day did not last a few months, and the imperial court finally made up its mind to completely wipe out the thieves in Dongchuan. First, he dissipated most of the Dongchuan thieves by appeasing and dissipating them, and then sent people to rebel among the thieves, causing chaos among the various forces within the thieves.

When the officials and soldiers really made a move, the big palm plate Ke Tianfei was attacked and killed by the officials and soldiers in an instant. Another big leader, Bai Guangen, also became a lackey of the official army.

The thieves who lost their commanders next couldn't organize any decent resistance at all, and the bands of thieves everywhere were put down by the officials and troops one after another, and the big boss Qi Yixun chose to surrender.

Another big boss, Liu Wu, the former leader of Zhao Ran, also disappeared with a few henchmen in a panic. After that, Zhao Ran planned to find an opportunity to highlight Dongchuan, but was blocked back by a group of officers and soldiers who were defending outside. He had no choice but to follow the others to Gao's house, and was incorporated into the hand of Carved Arrow.

Before the official army launched another attack, Zhao Ran heard the news that his former leader Liu Wu seemed to have been captured alive by the men and horses who had been demoted to the heavens.

is no stranger to Zhang Mengjin, a chaotic monkey who is already an official soldier, and Zhao Ran, who has become a pawn. When he followed Du San to fight in the West Trench, he fought with the men and horses of the Monkey of Chaotian. From the news that I heard later, Zhao Ran's leader Du San was also beheaded by the Chaos Monkey's men.

Zhao Ran felt that the troops of the Monkey were too difficult, not much worse than Cao Wenzhao's men and horses in Lintao Town. Even if they are smaller in number, they are even more destructive in some specific situations.

So Zhao Ran didn't want to touch the brows of this group of officers and soldiers again, but now the other party and Cao Wenzhao and other elite soldiers of the officers and soldiers came to the door together. Zhao Ran had no way to escape, so he could only barely muster up the courage to fight the other party.

"Don't lie behind the rocks and lay eggs, get the fuck up for me and keep fighting. What about you, do you want to die, but I didn't see another team of officers and soldiers coming up. ”

Under the beating and scolding of the new leader, a child who looked to be only eleven or twelve years old not far from Zhao Ran reluctantly stood up. The boy was holding a stone throwing stick in his hand, and he was about to shoot it with a stone projectile.

However, a sudden shot of lead from the official army directly destroyed his arm.

"Whew, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts me. Father, mother, brother, grandfather, where are you, come and save the child, the child is in pain. Dad, mother, woo woo ~ woo ....... ”

Under the intense pain, the child, who was still very young, kept crying loudly. He was still very young, and he looked very pitiful because of his sloppy dress and dishes. A child who is now crying in despair will definitely break the hearts of most people in the world.

But after all, this is a chaotic battlefield, surrounded by thieves who are accustomed to tragedy. So no matter how much the child cried, no one chose to come forward for treatment.

The leader, Eagle Arrow, eventually seemed to have lost all his patience to the cry, and he thought that the child was hopeless. So Diao Lingjian drew out his waist knife, ready to give this kid a good time.

But at this time, Zhao Ran suddenly stopped the carved arrow, stopped in front of the child and said, "He is my younger brother, let me save him." ”

"Die for me, do you know what his last name is? Don't think I don't know you're a lone mountain, and you don't have any brothers at all. And I know this rabbit cub, and all the people in his family have long since died. Don't pretend to be kind here, give him a good breath, anyway, his injury is probably hopeless in our case. ”

As the leader of this gang of thieves, Eagle Ling Arrow naturally knows the situation of the two people under him. So he didn't listen to Zhao Ran's nonsense, and after kicking Zhao Ran away, he prepared to end the wounded who kept crying on the ground.

"Leader Kaig, leader Kaig, spare him. I'm just dragging him to the back and I'll be back shortly. The brothers are watching, you will hurt the morale of the brothers as a result. ”

After Zhao Ran was kicked away, he quickly hugged the thigh of the carved arrow and begged him to spare the child on the ground.

After listening to Zhao Ran's words, Diao Lingjian turned his head to look around, and the other people under his hand were indeed looking at him strangely. Diao Lingjian scolded secretly and finally stopped insisting, he asked Zhao Ran to take the child away, and at the same time ordered the others to continue fighting.

"Okay, okay, you quickly drag this rabbit away, don't bother here. And you turtle sons, what to see. It's itchy one by one, right, let me continue to fight, don't you see that the officers and soldiers are still rushing up. Don't let the other leaders see the joke and keep firing arrows at me. ”

After finally getting the permission of the leader, Zhao Ran held the child's thin body and quickly came to the rear of the wounded concentration. He found a secluded place and said to the child, whose face had turned very pale, "Hold back, hold it with your hand." Don't be afraid of pain, survival is the most important thing. ”

"Woo~ Woo I hurt, I, I don't want to live anymore, I want to see my father, see my mother, see my brother and my grandfather, I miss them. "Although the child covered his wounds with the help and guidance of Zhao Ran. But the pain still made him cry, and he kept crying out to see his family.

Zhao Ran had no way to recruit the child's mother, he could only continue to encourage: "Don't die, your father doesn't want you to die." Desperately survive, now I am your brother, your brother will not allow you to die, understand. ”

"Well, then I'll endure it, brother, don't die. Woo ~ woo woo. ”

With Zhao Ran's encouragement, the child finally had some thoughts of living. and took advantage of the situation to recognize this kind-hearted brother, and at the same time asked the other party not to die.

Seeing the child's pale face, Zhao Ran quickly found a thief doctor who was taking care of the wounded. He took a penny from his waist and gave it to the unreliable-looking doctor, begging him to treat his "brother" seriously.

The doctor quickly got the money, found a clean strip of cloth, and began to bandage the weeping child.

After confirming that the child had been bandaged, Zhao Ran comforted his younger brother a few more words. Then, at the urging of the other thieves around him, he turned back to the battlefield.

Zhao Ran also didn't understand why he cared so much about an orphan who met in Pingshui, who was obviously hard-hearted. I've always created this kind of orphan before, so I shouldn't have any sympathy.

Maybe it's because after the child was injured and fell to the ground, he kept crying and calling for his family. reminded Zhao Ran of the lonely figure reflected on the water when he ran away by the pond in his hometown many years ago.

At that time, I seemed to be running away without knowing the end, crying helplessly and calling for my mother.

Zhao Ran, who returned to the battlefield, saw that Diao Ling Arrow was constantly shooting feather arrows with his strong bow. The officers and soldiers who attacked the mountain were suppressed under his excellent archery skills, and they did not dare to raise their heads. Other thieves also took advantage of this opportunity to use weapons such as firearms, bows, crossbows, and flying stones, causing a lot of casualties to the soldiers attacking the mountain.

However, the counterattack of the officers and soldiers came very quickly, and their high-quality bird guns continued to kill and injure the thieves who rose up on the mountain. Leaders such as Eagle Lingjiao, who could not sit idly by and watch these threats, organized people to shoot at each other with the officers and soldiers. With the help of the condescending thieves in the mountains, they held each other with the officials and troops for a while.

"What are you doing stupidly, hurry up and deal with the officers and soldiers. There are some officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain, which is really fucking difficult to deal with. When Diao Ling Arrow saw Zhao Ran coming back, he quickly beckoned him to respond quickly.

Zhao Ran picked up his strong crossbow again, stepped on the rope stirrup, and used all his strength to pull the crossbow away again.

He put a crossbow arrow into the arrow trough and observed the distance between the officer and the soldier's bird handman and himself. The nearest one was eighty paces away, and even if he shot his crossbow, it would not penetrate much. Therefore, Zhao Ran decided to choose another target and began to attack other officers and soldiers who were climbing the mountain.

Next, Zhao Ran shot a total of nine crossbow arrows, and four of them successfully caused damage to the officers and soldiers. Together with the other rogue crossbowmen, they once again repelled the attack of the official army. However, the officers and soldiers were determined to take down Gaojiaban, and soon they reorganized several groups of officers and soldiers and began to storm the mountain again.

"It's already too late, the officers and soldiers don't have much strength left, let's beat the officers and soldiers back a few more times, they will give up the attack, and the brothers will continue to hold on."

Seeing that the officers and soldiers seemed to be ready to start a general attack, Diao Lingjian knew that this was probably the most dangerous test of the day, so he began to loudly encourage the thieves around him.

Zhao Ran also saw that the official army was ready to give it a go, and he had to concentrate all his energy in the next battle. It's just that this battle has been fought from dawn to now, and Zhao Ran has become very tired.

He once again struggled to pull the crossbow, and Zhao Ran began to observe the situation on the battlefield, and he found a Ming army commander with a flag on his back approaching under his command.

Zhao Ran adjusted his breathing and shot an arrow at the other party's chest. The flight trajectory of the crossbow bolt was very standard, and it pierced the heart of the officer.

However, in the end, the other party was not killed, and the officers and officers dodged the attack in the last moment. However, Zhao Ran did not give up, he took aim again. This time it was closer than the last time, and he was seventy percent sure that the other party would die under his own arrows.

When Zhao Ran was about to pull the trigger of the hanging knife (crossbow), he saw a Ming army bird gunner who ran to a distance of sixty or seventy steps away from him at some point, and was aiming in the direction where he was.

Zhao Ran secretly said that it was not good, but after a bang, the world in Zhao Ran's eyes turned all red.